The "Morning Joe" crew says rappers could be to blame for Sigma Alpha Epsilon's racist chant.

Hosts and guests on the MSNBC show Wednesday said the University of Oklahoma brothers who gleefully sang the n-word likely learned the term from listening to rap music.

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The conversation started when co-host Mika Brzezinski mentioned that rapper Waka Flocka Flame cancelled an upcoming concert at OU after leaked video showed a bus full of brothers singing "There will never be a n----r SAE" to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands."

Brzezinski then pointed out Waka Flocka Flame's own use of the offensive word.

"If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that he's written, it's a bunch of garbage," she said. "It's full of n-words, it's full of f-words. It's wrong. And he shouldn't be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself."

Conservative analyst and guest Bill Kristol jumped in next.

"Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they've been hearing."

Joe Scarborough claimed that most people who buy hip hop music are white.

"The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it's a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no. They heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked."

Finally, Willie Geist explained that "there is a distinction between a bunch of white kids chanting about hanging someone from a tree, using that term in a hateful way" and rappers using it in music.

As the men finished moving out Tuesday night, a group of protesting students marched across campus chanting "not on our campus," The Oklahoman reported. As many as 150 students carried a unity banner covered in their fingerprints.

Some protesters attended with their mouths covered with duct tape bearing the word "Unheard," the name of a campus group that promotes minority rights and racial equality. Overnight, someone put the same tape over the mouths' of university statues, including one of former OU football coach Barry Switzer.

On Tuesday, Switzer, an honorary SAE member, defended the frat, calling its members "innocent."

Rice apologized, calling the song a "horrible mistake" that older brothers taught him. The Saturday night rendition was "fueled by alcohol," he said. Pettit's family made a similar apology: "We apologize to the community he has hurt."